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Boxing — United Kingdom

What boxing — United Kingdom fighters actually measure — 320 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.

median reach advantage

+1.62%

Across the 320 boxing — United Kingdom fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 1.62% — a median reach of 71″ on a median height of 70″. 79% fight orthodox.

SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026

Cohort profile

The country's shape

Median reach

71″

180.3 cm

Median height

70″

177.8 cm

Median reach advantage

1.62%

of body height

Median finish rate

54%

of wins inside the distance

Fighters

320

116 with a reach on file

-4.1%boxing — United Kingdom reach advantage9.4%

Stance

  • orthodox79%
  • southpaw21%

By era

  • 2010s75
  • 2000s38
  • 2020s25
  • 1990s20
  • 1980s15
  • 1910s7
  • 1930s6
  • 1970s6

How this country is compiled

  1. Every published fighter this site files under boxing — United Kingdom — 320 of them. Membership is stated by the source, never assigned to fill a cohort.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. Medians, not means — one outlier should not move the typical figure.
  4. A cohort is only published at 30 fighters or more. Below that a median is a rumour, so no page is emitted and nothing links to one.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Longest reach for the frame

boxing — United Kingdom — ranked by reach advantageAUG 2026
#FighterReachHeightAdvantage
1Audley Harrison86″77″+11.66%
2Swarmz77″69″+11.58%
3Johnny Nelson81″74″+9.41%
4Frank Bruno82″75″+9.34%
5Henry Akinwande86″79″+8.82%
6Herol Graham77″71″+8.49%
7Danny Williams79″73″+8.25%
8Robin Reid76″71″+7.04%
9Jack Gardner78″73″+6.85%
10Neil Simpson79″74″+6.76%
11Jimmy Wilde66″62″+6.41%
12Owen Moran67″63″+6.37%
13Gary Cornish84″79″+6.33%
14Galal Yafai68″64″+6.21%
15Shea Neary71″67″+5.93%
16Nigel Benn73″69″+5.76%
17Jason Matthews74″70″+5.74%
18John Conteh MBE76″72″+5.52%
19KSI76″72″+5.52%
20Anthony Joshua82″78″+5.15%
21Tyson Fury85″81″+4.96%
22John H. Stracey70″67″+4.47%
23John Ryder72″69″+4.34%
24George Groves74″71″+4.27%
25Carl Thompson75″72″+4.16%
26Scott Gammer78″75″+3.99%
27Callum Smith78″75″+3.99%
28David Haye78″75″+3.99%
29Amir Khan71″68.5″+3.62%
30Martin Murray73″70.5″+3.52%
31Ryan Burnett66″64″+3.08%
32Charley White68″66″+3.04%
33Scott Harrison69″67″+3%
34Eamonn Magee70″68″+2.95%
35Paul McCloskey70″68″+2.95%
36John Murray70″68″+2.95%
37Glenn Catley70″68″+2.95%
38Neil Sinclair72″70″+2.87%
39Freddie Mills72″70″+2.87%
40Jamie McDonnell72″70″+2.87%

Showing 40 of 116.

SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026

All 320 on the site

Standing questions

What this cohort does and does not say

How many boxing — United Kingdom fighters have a reach on record?
116 of 320. Reach is stated in the English Wikipedia infobox for those and absent for the rest, so every reach figure on this page — including the median — describes only the 116. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for boxing — United Kingdom?
That the typical boxing — United Kingdom fighter's reach exceeds their height by 1.62% of that height. It is a ratio rather than a raw span, so it compares directly against any other cohort on this site — which a reach in inches does not. Half of these fighters are above it and half below; it is not a standard or a target.
Cross-references
MMA — Brazil

The nearest cohort in size to boxing — United Kingdom — 278 fighters against 320, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

278 FIGHTERS Boxing — Mexico

The nearest cohort in size to boxing — United Kingdom — 261 fighters against 320, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

261 FIGHTERS By decade

Whether boxing — United Kingdom looks the way it does because of the weight or because of the decade — the same fighters, cut by when they actually fought.

16 DECADES Longest reach for the frame

The extremes this cohort's median is drawn from, ranked across all 2,650 fighters with a reach on file.

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